LUGIA #9/111 - NEO GENESIS
- Set
- Pokemon Neo Genesis (Neo series)
- Number
- 9/111
- Rarity
- Rare Holo
- Card type
- Pokémon - Basic (Colorless)
- Artist
- Hironobu Yoshida
- Released
- (2000-12-16)
- Raw card reference RAW / UNGRADED
- $1085.03 USD (TCGplayer market, 1stEditionHolofoil, as of 2026-09-11)Loose, ungraded copy. Not a graded slab - graded values are charted below.
- Graded slab data GRADED SLAB
- 7 Rip Station marks, 3 cited public sales - per grader and grade, see the chart.
- In our machines
- 2 in the $500.00 machine
It is said that it quietly spends its time deep at the bottom of the sea, because its powers are too strong.
RIP IT
Lugia is in the $500.00 machine right now - PSA 8, PSA 5 loaded. A pack reveals one random card from that machine.
Rip the $500.00 machineABOUT THIS CARD
Lugia is a rare holo Pokemon card from Pokemon Neo Genesis, card 9 of 111, released December 16, 2000 in the Neo series. The illustration is by Hironobu Yoshida.
Lugia headlines Neo Genesis, the set that introduced Generation 2 to the English game. Elemental Blast could one-shot anything if you assembled three different energy types, but the card's weight is as a collectible: the Neo Genesis Lugia holo — especially 1st Edition — is one of the defining vintage chase cards outside Base Set, with notoriously difficult print quality making top grades rare.
VALUE
What is Lugia #9 from Neo Genesis worth?
Two different numbers answer this, and they are not interchangeable. Raw/ungraded: a loose, ungraded copy of Lugia #9 (Neo Genesis) carries a market reference of $1085.03 USD for the 1stEditionHolofoil printing (TCGplayer market price, as of 2026-09-11). Graded slabs: a graded example is priced per grading company and per grade and can sit far above that raw figure - documented public sales on file for this card run from $144300.00 (BGS 10 Pristine, 2021-05-01) to $360000.00 (PSA 10, 2026-08-30), each listed with its source below. Both are references, not offers. The graded copy in our machine carries a Rip Station estimated slab value of $1100.00 (PSA 8).
Graded slab values over time GRADED SLAB
Slab values, per grading company and grade. These are a different market from the raw/ungraded reference in the facts block above - do not read one as the other.
| Date | Grader | Grade | Estimated slab value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-28 | PSA | 5 | $410.29 |
| 2026-08-07 | CGC | 8.5 | $639.60 |
| 2026-08-07 | PSA | 3 | $368.00 |
| 2026-08-07 | PSA | 5 | $467.50 |
| 2026-08-07 | PSA | 7 | $797.00 |
| 2026-08-07 | PSA | 8 | $5760.00 |
| 2026-08-10 | PSA | 8 | $748.88 |
| Date | Grader | Grade | Printing | Sale price (USD) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-05-01 | BGS | 10 Pristine | 1st Edition | $144300.00 | Wargamer cites Fanatics Collect (formerly PWCC) sale; only month/year given, used 1st of month |
| 2026-06-01 | PSA | 10 | 1st Edition | $205794.00 | ALT sale cited as the prior benchmark; article gives month only, date set to the 1st |
| 2026-08-30 | PSA | 10 | 1st Edition | $360000.00 | Fanatics Collect Weekly auction, 25 bids, new record; corroborated by SI.com weekly TCG roundup |
PULL RATE
What are the odds of pulling Lugia #9?
From published pack odds, any holofoil rare appeared about 1 in 3 packs in Neo Genesis boosters. With 19 cards sharing that slot, pulling Lugia specifically works out to roughly 1 in 57 packs, assuming equal seeding. In the Rip Station $500.00 machine right now, 2 of 519 loaded cards are this card - about 0.39% per rip.
Source: Bulbapedia: Booster pack (TCG). Per-card figure derived as slot odds x 19 eligible cards.
POP REPORT
Rip Station vault population - graded slabs GRADED SLAB
Counts of GRADED copies, by grading company and grade, that have passed through our machines. Raw/ungraded copies are counted separately in the Raw row.
| Grader | Grade | Copies |
|---|---|---|
| CGC | 8.5 | 1 |
| PSA | 8 | 2 |
| PSA | 7 | 1 |
| PSA | 5 | 3 |
| PSA | 3 | 1 |
| Total | 8 | |
IN OUR MACHINES
Is Lugia #9 in a Rip Station machine?
Yes. 2 graded copies of Lugia are loaded in the $500.00 machine. A pack from that machine reveals one random card from everything loaded in it.
- $500.00 machine: 2 of 519 loaded cards (0.39% per rip). Rip this machine
SOURCES
- Card metadata and image: the open pokemontcg.io dataset.
- Raw/ungraded reference value: pokemontcg.io market snapshot (tcgplayer), as of 2026-09-11. An ungraded single, an estimate, not an offer - and not a graded slab value.
- Reported graded-slab sales (3): documented public results, each linked to its source in the value section above - comicbook.com, wargamer.com. Third-party realized prices, not Rip Station estimates.
- Pack odds: cited above per slot.
- Machine availability, composition odds, graded vault population and graded price marks: Rip Station first-party data.